Funny thing is, when i am playing, ( cash or here for fun ) before each hand i silently pray for pocket A’s and then when i do get them i am like" WTF’ lol:).
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From a MTT perspective…
PUSH all in ALMOST all the time.
The only way you can be beaten is if you see a flop against another player.
The more players you allow to see the flop with you, the less your odds of winning are.
Some argue that you could make more money limping in, which lets assume is true, but I have seen players do this time after time and get splattered by hands that would never see the flop if they had to push all-in to chase it. They think their AA is invincible after the flop and bet like they are chumming the waters for fish only to have been in the net of someone who called with 5/9 off and flopped a straight.
If I limp in with AA, which I do about 25% of the time, I understand I may have to fold them if I think they are beaten, and often do. It is the RISK I take in playing them this way.
Maybe it comes down to how experienced you are.
Is the player experienced enough to fold AA if it gets into trouble post flop
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Agree on the suited connectors. I like to see them, but I have very rarely gotten there with those, except AK suited, of course.
I echo pretty much what @Meddy333 said above. I go all in every time preflop with AA. I would much rather have one player call me than to have the whole table possibly see the flop. Just opens up too many ways for you to lose.
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Interesting discussion.
I watched the hand from @Younguru and thought, “Yeah, it’s easy when another A comes out.”
I watched the hand from @Pos111 and thought, “Yeah, it’s REAL easy when you have quad A on the turn!”
The hand is much harder to play when no other A comes out.
I played a real life tournament recently. Bet fairly high preflop (like in the hands shared above) and had one caller. The flop was 3 different cards, highest being J. At that point, I bet much higher, and the other person called. Turn came, and I decided to go all-in. The other person called it. I showed my AA, and they showed J8… which hit 2-pair on the flop.
I’ve also lost AA to JJ… again, bet high preflop, and he called. Flop also had a J. I went all-in, and he called. A 4th J came out as well, so I was smashed to pieces.
But then, I’ve also had AA, played it well, and had quads. Very easy to play when you know you have the winning hand!
My strategy now:
Either go all-in from the start so that no more decision making can take place, or else play it carefully and fold if someone else is betting high and there’s a better potential hand out there (e.g. if KK is out and someone bets high, they might have a K, and three Ks will beat the AA).
That doesn’t make aces harder to play, just less likely to win. If you check and they go all-in, you’re not folding right, so it doesn’t matter what you do on run-outs like that. Sometimes you’re just going to lose with aces no matter what, the point is to maximize your winnings when you do come out ahead.
To that end, going all in pre-flop is a decent strategy against really weak opponents, but a terrible idea if your opponents are remotely competent. Folding when it’s clear your opponent likely has a better hand is a good idea though - you’re usually going to have at most two outs with AA if you are behind.
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I see this all the time because fools believe they have an automatic Win.
Play AA like Ya would any other cards & You’ll Win 80% of the time.
Definitely don’t go ALL IN before the flop!
Nobody should be doing this anyway.
Ya lose 80% of the time & have to ReBUY over & over again & Infuriate everybody Yer playing with.
Also, I have on very limited occasions, folded top pair, top kicker, QQ, KK, AA, on safe appearing boards, vs 2 pair, sets to NIT’s, and in situations where semi tight, good image, etc, players, etc, where 1 good player raises, another 3 bet reraises mid sized, another 4 bets big, another shoves all in, another calls, another calls, me I fold, and 1 of the 3 has a set, another has 2 pair, another has top pair top kicker, another has top pair middle kicker, a safe appearing board.
Shouldn’t overfold top pair top kicker, QQ, KK, AA, etc, on safe boards, but one does need to be able to fold top pair top kicker, QQ, KK, AA on a safe appearing board in the right spots, situations, against the right players, etc.
WRONG my friend----You play the player or players and depends on the situation-----If i got 2 raises in front of me, NO WAY am i not going all in, i am making ppl. who raise put it all in-----i do it in cash games with pre-flop raisers every hand ( with far less then AA ). Every situation is different and when u know how other ppl. play u adapt to it…Me old, learned the hard way but play the same here on fun free site as small cash games…I joke about AA but i just had them in a small cash game ( 6 player ring game ) and i gad 3 raises in front of me and all 3 called my all in and i won but i honestly hate those situations but being 3 a.m. here they were our fish ( i mean bad players ) and not one even had a par pre flop:)